sheepmullet

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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Are you implying that Europeans can't see through propaganda? That, somehow, only Americans have this gift? I’m saying reality is a hell of an antidote to propaganda. I’m certain French people are far better at recognizing biased
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Americans are not somehow less susceptible to pop media influence than, say, Europeans, simply by virtue of being Americans. Of course they are! Propaganda is much less effective when you constantly see conflicting evidence with your o
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> contrast to the USA, Australia etc, where no-one can tell you are not a citizen by simply looking at you. Yes America, Australia, the UK, etc are all running a great experiment to see if multiculturalism can work. The rest of the world
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> You need to bring something special: capital or knowledge/skills. Unfortunately that is not really true. But it’s certainly a good idea!
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
I’m not sure if you are joking or not but Cleveland is nothing like a concentration or re-education camp.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Insurance for a family is now > $20K a year. The real question is why is it so expensive? When I was growing up in my town with about 1000 kids we had 1 kid who was diabetic, 1 attempted suicide, and 2 serious car accidents. We had
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> People are hiring more women because it improves performance and productivity [1]. I think the hbr article has cause and effect backwards. It’s obvious that wealthy stable high margin businesses can afford to focus on diversity initiat
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> False negatives means that your hiring process is longer, more difficult, more costly, and you therefore find it harder to grow, or to replace people who leave. Exactly! If a couple of people on my team of six leave and they can’t be r
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> I've heard somewhere that companies like Stripe would rather have false negatives than false positives in hiring. The top tech companies can reject 10 good candidates for every 1 that they hire because there is a massive surplus o
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> would listen and judge system stability suggestions based on participation in supposedly optional activity unrelated to system stability. In my experience they are closely related. > You also openly say that you trust people work ba
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Does that not sound manipulative to you? You seem to be assuming there is a lot of peer pressure placed on you if you don’t want to do it. Why? I’m simply saying there are always social costs. For example you probably won’t be listened
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
I’m not sure your two links have any substance to them. A few history buffs couldn’t find anything to support it.... I’d be interested to know how they did test bridges etc.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> If on call is optional what's with the social penalty for people not wanting to do it. Because many optional activities have an impact on your peers and they are unlikely to judge you strictly based upon your job duties?
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
IME developers will go where the career growth is and it is up to the company to make sure that fixing a race condition on a Friday afternoon is rewarded.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> It translates to loyalty (albeit weakly) in that a woman who is older has better self awareness and knows what she wants in a relationship, where a younger woman might still be figuring that out Than why are there clear correlations (f
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> if we do X we can sell more' which has naturally aligned incentives. Even then there are agency problems which mean that once a company gets over a certain size there is no natural alignment. I know plenty of managers tweaking A&#
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> being a climatologist is what makes you qualified to speak on the climate > If you don't have a PhD in the field, you don't belong in the big discussions where consequences matter. Why? I think what we need is accountabili
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> positively correlated, especially loyalty How does a string of short term relationships show loyalty? > flexibility means (ability to adapt to change? Yes and the willingness. I’ve known plenty of early 20s women who will drop their
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Imagine how a man might pick a woman if attractiness was completely off the table Loyalty, playfulness, flexibility, kindness, intelligence, high energy levels, ability to have kids, doesn’t already have kids, etc. None of which are po
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> I would venture to guess that the majority of domestic violence is male against female Why? The data suggests it’s close to 50-50.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> option of dating men who followed the same path as them No they don’t. A 35 year old man can date a 25 year old woman whereas the reverse is a lot less common. As such the 35 year old man has a lot more options than a 35 year old woman
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> and they have an astronomically high turnover rate, nobody wants to do the work unless there's huge money involved. Maybe because Ontario has ridiculous housing costs? Id be happy to work for $15/hr if I could get a decent 3
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> I'm skeptical of this, but I don't know that it's wrong. It depends on what you mean by “worked”. 1) Have they allowed a slower and more humane shift of workers to other more competitive industries? Yes. The GM bailout i
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older. I disagree. I’m old enough to have been around before we had so many health problems. It is one of the main drivers of our quickly increasing health costs. Whe
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> Doesn’t really work in practice though, because you rapidly deteriorate into a ludicrously invasive system In practice there is a small core group of activities that cause the vast majority of the problems. > Coordinated and sustain
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
Because you have made the choice to look after your sick parents? I haven’t made the choice to look after your parents.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
The OP was talking about working class families. That’s a far cry from extreme poverty. My parents were cleaners and although we were often tight on money we were miles away from extreme poverty.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> completely unwilling to act in a way that is remotely moral or beneficial for the greater good. So have many governments. Even well intentioned regulations have unintended side effects.
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
> I don't think there is much dispute that developers tend to come from upper middle class families, which is exactly what the parent said. I’d love to see some data. Of course if you work at the kind of companies that only hire peo
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by sheepmullet 8y ago
What exactly confuses you about these terms? I’m not here to play word games.

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